DJ Shadow recruits De La Soul for brand spanking new collaborative tune “Rocket Gas”: Stream
After two years of close to silence, DJ Shadow has returned with a brand new tune. Dubbed “Rocket Gas”, the observe options visitor verses from rap legends De La Soul in addition to a load of vocal samples, horns, and well-timed scratch work.
At this time’s providing will characteristic on the Madden NFL 20 playlist due out July 24th. It’s additionally set to look on a brand new DJ Shadow album later this yr — his first since 2016’s The Mountain Will Fall.
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In an announcement, the instrumental hip-hop veteran mentioned “Rocket Gas” is a stable indication of the “fairly thrilling” new materials he has coming down the road,
“It’s been awhile since my final album The Mountain Will Fall, and the corresponding tour…and because the tour ended, I’ve been principally silent. It is because I’ve been targeted and dealing on a ton of music. I often attempt to keep away from hyperbole, and I’m not super-comfortable hyping up my very own stuff, however issues are about to get fairly thrilling. My heroes De La Soul had been variety sufficient to hitch me on the debut single, “Rocket Gas,” and the collab encapsulates a lot of what I really like about hip-hop…vitality, beats, and enjoyable.”
Hear “Rocket Gas” beneath.
The brand new joint observe marks the third time these two acts have collaborated. Being a longtime De La Soul fan, DJ Shadow sampled the New York three-piece on his debut album, Endtroducing…, from means again in 1996. De La Soul member Posdnous then returned the favor by dropping in on DJ Shadow’s 2011 file, The Much less You Know, the Higher.
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